ARLI$$  1996-2001 The art of the sports Super Agent

This is one of the most used locations in California, "Club Ed" way out in the California Desert about 10 miles east of Lancaster / Palmdale. This is a rare original post card touting it as a location to shoot at. It looks very different today since every crew that shot here added or modified it a little. It was made for a movie originally but I'm not sure what it was. It was our location for the last episode of ARLISS. The pictures below were taken there.

This was one of the last shots of the Arliss series and one of the toughest. John Farmer (Dolly Grip) and Bill Witthans (key grip, me!) are on top of Shotmaker cap operating the Techno crane. We went out and shot for about 3 hours and It was possibly the coldest I ever been The wind chill on the insert car and the fact it was cold to begin with near froze us. The Picture is put together from 4 separate shots so its a bit distorted.

This is a tough business and anyone who says they never dozed off on a set is either a liar or has a cushy job. 15-16 hour days and then add the drive to that... people grab a couple of zzz's whenever they can. Al Castillo and Rusty Davis (grips) grab theirs while John Farmer and I freeze on the insert car.

Gary (electric) was sleeping but with cat like reflexes popped up for the picture!

Greg Guellow's face says it all!

Really I usually work on Features only! I'm just doing this for a sick friend......

Dan Kaplow was our Line Producer / UPM for several years and A Great guy. Always appreciative of a good job and did everything he could to make things go smooth!